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American Voice: An Evening With Willa Cather

… Image Image from the Willa Cather Foundation Collections & Archives at the National Willa Cather Center At the Newberry Special Events Tuesday, Jun … who had traveled to Chicago from Lincoln for a week of opera and theater. Morrison was well-known as a photographer …
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An Evening With Willa Cather

… —a peer of Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Wharton—and one of the most treasured American writers of the early 20th … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( My Ántonia ,  One of Ours ,  The Professor’s House ,  Death Comes for the …
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Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World

… twentieth century, Willa Cather’s work was shaped by her Nebraska upbringing. Dr. Shively will discuss many aspects … and its potential influence, as well as her travels across Nebraska and through Wymore—which she alluded to in her …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… to any other American writer. While Cather moved away from Nebraska in 1896, her parents Charles and Mary Virginia … conservators from the Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The project was supported by the State of Nebraska – Department of Economic Development and the Willa …
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Willa Cather Biography

… P. Stout’s Cather Among the Moderns (2019) and Melissa J. Homestead’s The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative … understood in relation to their personal and cultural places. Most often such places owe to Cather's own best … and her Uncle George and Aunt Franc, who were already homesteading a district known locally as Catherton. Cather …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Special Events … emerged in the 1920s a dominant voice was found in the writing of Willa Cather (1873-1947); her frequent …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… Willa Cather Timeline Major Events & Milestones 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in … for the character Thea Kronborg in her next novel,  The Song of the Lark . Cather visits Nebraska.  1915  — Cather publishes  …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will be … open hours . This event if free of charge. Learn more about Willa Cather and Material Culture  and artist Betty …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… host this sesquicentennial celebration of Willa Cather, one of the most singular and treasured American writers of the 20th century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) set a new standard …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… , NY 10011 United States "Bright and Beautiful and Alive": Willa Cather's New York Intersections We hope you will make plans … experience. Willa Cather lived most of her professional writing life in New York (1906-1947), first in Greenwich …
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